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With only 140 birds left in the wild at Cape Arid National Park, the western ground parrot is critically endangered. An Esperance documentary maker aims to raise awareness of the bird before it's too late....

The average temperature in Antarctica was 15 degrees colder during the last ice age, making conditions so hostile that only three groups of emperor penguins were living in Antarctica. Today there are seven times as many birds living in 50 colonies around Antarctica. Scientists say conditions ...

The bird stands, feet in the water, beak pointed to the sky. It is still. It eyes us off out of the corner of one eye. It stretches its neck slightly, thinning itself to blend into the blades of rice that it stands within, and it almost succeeds. But we dont move away. The bird begins to lower itself, beak ...